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Yé-yé
Yé-yé (yéyé), from English "yeah", is a 1960s French pop genre adapted from Anglo-American hits, coined by Edgar Morin in Le Monde (1963); led by France Gall, Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday, fading after May 1968.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: New York indie rock trio (Karen O, Nick Zinner, Brian Chase) formed in Williamsburg in 2000; breakout Fever to Tell (2003) with "Maps"; albums through Cool It Down (2022).
Yeah! (Usher song)
"Yeah!" is a 2004 song by American singer Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, the lead single from Confessions; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks and was the number-one song of 2004.
Yealink (亿联网络)
Yealink (亿联网络) is a Chinese manufacturer of unified communications hardware, including SIP desk phones and video conferencing systems, based in Xiamen and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2017.
Year
A year is the period of Earth's revolution around the Sun, about 365.2422 days, matched by calendar years of 365 or 366 days through the Gregorian leap-year rule.
Year 2000 problem
The Year 2000 problem, known as the Y2K bug or Millennium Bug, was a potential computer failure caused by two-digit year storage, prompting costly fixes before 2000.
Year 2038 problem
The Year 2038 problem, also called Y2K38 or the Epochalypse, is an integer overflow that will make 32-bit Unix time counters jump from 2038 back to 1901.
Year 3000
Year 3000: pop rock song by Busted (2003, Island/Universal), UK No. 2, 600,000 UK copies; covered by the Jonas Brothers (2006), who changed the Michael Jackson line to Kelly Clarkson.
Year 400 Stela
The Year 400 Stela is a granite stela erected under Ramesses II commemorating the 400th anniversary of an era of the god Seth, now in Cairo.
Year 6000
Year 6000 is a Hebrew calendar year running from September 2239 to 2240, marking the latest time by which Jewish sources say the Messianic Age will begin.
Year and a day rule
The year and a day rule was a common law rule barring homicide charges if the victim died more than a year and a day after the act.
Year in golf
A year in golf is an annual chronological summary of the sport, recording major championship winners, leading money earners, and notable deaths by calendar year or tour season.
Year in poker
A "Year in poker" article is an annual review of a calendar year's major poker tournament results, player milestones, and industry developments, from the WSOP to online series.
Year of Return, Ghana 2019
The Year of Return was a 2019 Ghanaian campaign inviting people of African descent worldwide to visit and invest in Ghana, marking 400 years since 1619.
Year of Sorrow
The Year of Sorrow (عام الحزن) is the tenth year of Muhammad's prophetic mission, 619 AD, when his wife Khadija and his protector Abu Talib both died.
Year of the Cat (song)
Year of the Cat is Al Stewart's 1976 folk-rock title track, produced by Alan Parsons at Abbey Road, UK peak No. 31, built on a Peter Wood riff and a Vietnamese-astrology title.
Year of the Dragon (film)
Year of the Dragon (1985) is Michael Cimino's Chinatown crime thriller, scripted with Oliver Stone from Robert Daley's novel, starring Mickey Rourke and John Lone, released 16 August 1985 amid Asian-American protests and an MGM/UA disclaimer.
Year of the Elephant (عام الفيل)
Year of the Elephant (ʿĀm al-Fīl, عام الفيل) is the Arabic name for the year, about 570 CE, of Abraha's failed march on Mecca and Muhammad's traditional birth year.
Year of the Five Emperors
Year of the Five Emperors, AD 193 Roman succession crisis after Commodus' murder: Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus claimed the throne; Severus won at Lugdunum in 197.
Year of the Four Emperors
Year of the Four Emperors (69 CE): Roman civil war after Nero's death, in which Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian ruled in succession; ended with Vespasian founding the Flavian Dynasty.
Year of the Rabbit (TV series)
Year of the Rabbit: British Channel 4 Victorian police sitcom (2019, 6 episodes) starring Matt Berry as DI Rabbit, with Freddie Fox and Susan Wokoma; written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley; cancelled after one series despite a planned second.
Year of the Snitch
Year of the Snitch is Death Grips' sixth studio album, released June 22, 2018 on Third Worlds/Harvest. A 13-track, 37-minute experimental hip-hop record featuring DJ Swamp, Justin Chancellor, Andrew Adamson, and Lucas Abela; Metacritic 69.
Year of the Solar System
The Year of the Solar System (YSS) was a NASA public engagement initiative from October 2010 to August 2012, celebrating an unprecedented rate of planetary missions.
Year One (film)
Year One is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as prehistoric tribesmen wandering through biblical stories.
Year Without a Summer
The Year Without a Summer, also called Poverty Year, was the cold, wet summer of 1816 in Europe and North America, caused by Mount Tambora's 1815 eruption.
Year zero
Year zero is a year numbered 0 placed between 1 BC and AD 1 in systems like astronomical numbering and ISO 8601, though the traditional AD/BC scheme has no such year.
Year Zero (album)
Year Zero is a fifth studio album by Nine Inch Nails. Released in 2007, this industrial rock concept album explored a dystopian near-future United States and launched an elaborate alternate reality game.
Year-in-subnational-polity chronicles
A year-in-subnational-polity chronicle is a reference work recording year by year the notable events and officeholders of a single polity, such as a colony or US state.
Year-in-television chronologies
Year-in-television chronologies arrange TV events, programs, and broadcasts by year or season. Formats include web year lists, season-by-season histories like Watching TV, annuals such as Broadcasting Yearbook, and archival broadcast logs.
Yearbook
Yearbook: an annual school or college publication recording an academic year in portraits, photos, and text; also annual reference compendiums. First U.S. high school edition 1845; now print and digital.